[ All of a sudden, Ai feels like she can't breathe. She's gotten used to him turning that expression on the others, placating and warm, disarming and utterly void of any human feeling whatsoever. She knows that smile inside and out because it's the one she'd practiced every day since she was twelve years old up to the day she died. That's why having it turned on her now is so unbearably suffocating. The sight of it makes her want to-
Oh, Nino-chan, she thinks. No wonder you hated me so much. ]
Yes, it would!
[ The words come exploding out of her before she can control herself. She takes another step forward and without thinking at all, she clutches her hand in the other - the one marked with her Command Seal. The one he'd held tight enough to bruise, once. ]
Didn't you tell me not to lie to you?! I've been trying my best, so - how is this fair?!
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Oh, Nino-chan, she thinks. No wonder you hated me so much. ]
Yes, it would!
[ The words come exploding out of her before she can control herself. She takes another step forward and without thinking at all, she clutches her hand in the other - the one marked with her Command Seal. The one he'd held tight enough to bruise, once. ]
Didn't you tell me not to lie to you?! I've been trying my best, so - how is this fair?!